How Your Accountant Quits

David Weinberg, chief financial officer of sneaker retailer Skechers USA Inc., was working after lunch Monday when two senior partners from accounting firm KPMG appeared in his Manhattan Beach, Calif., office.

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The men sat down in a conference room. The KPMG partners read from a prepared statement, answered a few questions, then left. The whole episode took less than 45 minutes.